Word: trentino
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Emanuel Madruzzo, "Cardinal and Archbishop of Trent and Secular Prince of the Trentino" had "a suite of 500 gentlemen splendidly attired in rich and bizarre liveries" and "squandered his wealth, since in him the race [of Madruzzo] would be extinguished and the principality left without an heir...
England and France, given former Turk lands in Mesopotamia, Palestine, and Syria, have pushed the frontiers of empires further around the Southeastern shores of the Mediterranean. Italy, intent on the Trentino and Trieste in 1919, received little in addition to disappointing Tripoli except the control of Fuime on the Adriatic. Furthermore the appearance of Roumania and Jugo-Slavia as something more than the petty Balkan princedoms of Moldavia--Wallachia and Serbia gave her rivals more serious in many ways than Austria-Hungary had been. So the Peace of Versailles brought no peace to the Near East. Italy's interests traditionally...
Wagnerites will almost certainly be given Rheingold and Götterdámmerung. Rumored "new singers" are: Ralph Errole, tenor, Joan Ruth, soprano, and Marion Talley, soprano (TIME, April 14)-Americans all, as well as Signor Enzo Bozano, basso from Trentino...
...Archbishop of Turin, 72, at Turin, Italy. He joined the Garibaldian Volunteers in the War of 1866, and for years afterwards wore his red shirt under his cassock. In 1915, when Italy entered the World War, he organized priests for duty as army chaplains in the mountains of the Trentino, where they carved altars out of snow and said mass in a temperature lower than zero...
...Santa Margherita agreement, a satisfactory disposition of Flume has at last been made. Since the acquisition of the Trentino at the close of the War, Italian eyes have been fixed on the east coast of the Adriatic which Italy has long desired, and which she hoped to gain peaceably. Her opponents, the Jugo-Slavs and their wire-pullers in Belgrade, have always been at a disadvantage of which they are well aware. Italy's military prestige and the moral support that the Treaty of London gave to her attempts, have made them afraid to push matters too far; all they...